Hi Tina,

Wow, this is bizarre. I swear I've done this a number of times, and it worked
just as I said it did... but then I went and retried it like your example, and
lo and behold, it's working as *you* say it does. I guess you learn something
new every day!

Just for the heck of it, I'm checking with development just to be sure I'm not
imagining things. The implication here is that you can not exclude any file
called MYFILE.TXT from just the root file system without coding INCLUDES for
the other file systems.

Sorry about the confusion,

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support

        ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
        09-24-97 07:46 AM
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To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU @ internet
cc:
Subject: Re: excluding dir names with dots in them

I disagree with your comment below, Andy:

> EXCLUDE /.../root.b/.../*
>    This will cause any file in any directory called /root.b (and its
> subdirectories) *in the root file system* to be excluded.
>
> It is important to note that the file system name must be coded as
> part of the
> INCLUDE or EXCLUDE statement. Thus all of these examples pertain to
> the / (root)
> file system only (assuming that, as has been stated, root.b is a
> directory and
> not a file system). For example, if I want to exclude all files called
> MYFILE.TXT
> in the / and /home file systems, I will need *two* EXCLUDE statements:
>
> EXCLUDE /.../MYFILE.TXT
> EXCLUDE /HOME/.../MYFILE.TXT
>
I understand it to mean all directories within the domain(s) for the
backup.  I've also seen it work this way too.  I added this line to my
include/exclude file:
        EXCLUDE /.../*.tina
Then I added files /root.tina, /usr/usr.tina, and /home/home.tina (all
different file systems).  I did selective backups on all 3 files (dsmc s
/root.tina /usr/usr.tina /home/home.tina) and none were backed up
because of the exclude.

        ANS4119W File '/root.tina' excluded by Include/Exclude list
        Selective Backup processing of '/root.tina' finished with 0
failures.

        ANS4119W File '/usr/usr.tina' excluded by Include/Exclude list
        Selective Backup processing of '/usr/usr.tina' finished with 0
failures.

        ANS4119W File '/home/home.tina' excluded by Include/Exclude list
        Selective Backup processing of '/home/home.tina' finished with 0
failures.

Tina Hilton
Thomson Consumer Electronics